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dell wifi switch causes can't reenable wifi

Bug #321432 reported by Nicolò Chieffo on 2009-01-26

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #193970: iwl3945 | iwl4965: Wireless can't be activated after disabling kill switch. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Jaunty linux-2.6.28-5

If I disable wifi using the hardware switch I can't reenable it, unless I reload the 2 iwl modules
I have an intel 5100 card, and a dell latitude E6400 laptop.

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Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) wrote on 2009-01-27:

Hi Nicolò,

This sounds similar to bug 193970 which we anticipated would be fixed for Jaunty. Can you provide some additional information:

sudo lspci -vnvn > lspci-vnvn.log
dmesg > dmesg.log
cat /proc/version_signature > version_signature.log

It would also be good to capture your dmesg output after you've disabled the wifi, can't renable it, and then have to reload the module.

Thanks.

Changed in linux:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3) wrote on 2009-01-27:

lspci.vnvn.log Edit (14.3 KiB, text/plain)

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Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3) wrote on 2009-01-27:

dmesg.log Edit (51.3 KiB, text/plain)

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Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3) wrote on 2009-01-27:

version_signature.log Edit (27 bytes, text/plain)

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Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3) wrote on 2009-01-27:

after_killswitched Edit (4.0 KiB, text/plain)

this is the syslog after having enabled the killswitch, which is taken from syslog which is more complete than dmesg

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Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3) wrote on 2009-01-27:

after_enabled_back_wifi Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain)

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Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3) wrote on 2009-01-27:

after_removing_module Edit (705 bytes, text/plain)

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Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3) wrote on 2009-01-27:

after_inserting_modules Edit (4.7 KiB, text/plain)

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Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3) wrote on 2009-01-27:

Notice that I have an orrible loss of toucpad sync, which causes the touchpad to become a normal mouse :( any solution for this??

Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3) on 2009-01-31

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status:	Incomplete → Confirmed

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Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3) wrote on 2009-01-31:

#10

this is not the bug you linked, since it's the module iwlagn and iwlcore, and the workaround described in the first post is not valid.

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Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) wrote on 2009-02-17:

#11

Hi Nicolò,

Please refer to comment 115 in bug 193970, it should be a fix for the iwlagn driver:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24/+bug/193970/comments/115

I don't think it has been released in the form of an update (for Jaunty) just yet, but please keep an eye for it to test and let us know your results. Thanks.

https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/